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- 761: Catch 22
- ... to be without the faculty of reason (Yes, that is his whole name with rank). His primary job was to sign documents all day long. One day the Major decided to humour himself and signed "Washington Irving's name to the rest of the official documents" (Heller, 102). He believed that signing Washington Irving's name to essential documents was entertaining and far less monotonous than signing Major Major Major. To make matters more enticing he never got caught for forging a name that he made up from a figment of his imagination. Major Major Major had sinned, "and it was good, for none of the documents to which he signed Washington Irving's name never came back! Here at last was progress and Major, Major threw himself into a new career with uninhibited gusto" (Heller, 103). Certainly forgery wasn't looked upon as much of ...
- 762: The First Atomic Test
- ... Leslie R. Groves, the military head of the Manhattan Project and the Trinity test. When General Groves discoverted that in order to use the California location he would have to talk to its commander, General George Patton, Groves quickly decided on the Jornada del Muerto. This was because General Groves did not want anything to do with the flamboyant George Patton, whom he had once described as "the most disagreeable man I had ever met." (1) Despite being the second choice the remote Jornada was a good location for the test, because it provided isolation ... test was originally set for July 4, 1945. However, final preparations for the test, which included the assembly of the bomb's plutonium core, did not begin in earnet until Thursday, July 12. The abandoned George McDonald ranch house located about two miles south of the test site served as the assembly point for the device's core. After assembly, the plutonium core was transported to Trinity Site to be ...
- 763: Gun Control
- ... and suggestions, no substantial reforms have been made. That is until just recently. With Vice President Gore’s campaign proposal for handgun licensing, Clinton has taken the strongest stand on the gun control factor yet (Washington Post 1). The Gore-to-Clinton reforms include a ban on the manufacture, import, and ownership of handguns as well as assault-style weapons (Washington Post 1). Another part of Clinton’s reforms is the development of guns that fire only when held by their owners and for much stricter enforcement of laws than the already existing ones (Washington Post 1). Bill Bradley, a runner in the election race of the year 2000, also holds strict reforms for gun control. As part of his campaign, Bill Bradley says: “As President, Bill Bradley will ...
- 764: Rasin In The Sun Two Influence
- Two Influences of the Day Through the play " Raisin in the Sun, " Beneatha Younger is exposed to two men who she both has an interest in. This being Joseph Asagai and George Murchison. Both men have some similar characteristics, but also differences which make their actions stand out from each other. To start, both men are kind at heart. They have good intentions, but goabout it differently. Asagai likes to talk about his past and get more involved in most things more than George. As he seems to want to get down to business slightly more. They are about the same age and seem at least by what we see of them in the play to be well educated ... for Beneatha can be shown by his traditional yet symbolic gift of his families Nigerian robes. (61) In this same way he inquired about the way she had her hair style... untraditional to him. (62) George on the other hand is more to the point and is comparing the norm of the time to his actions and what he compares others too. such as when he says " Look honey, we' ...
- 765: The War in Vietnam
- ... U.S. involvement in Vietnam seemed logical and compelling to American leaders. Following its success in World War II, the United States faced the future with a sense of moral rectitude and material confidence. From Washington's perspective, the principal threat to U.S. security and world peace was monolithic, dictatorial communism emanating from he Soviet Union. Any communist anywhere, at home or abroad, was, by definition, and enemy of the ... for French cooperation with America's plans for the defense of Europe through the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. After China became a communist state in 1949, the stability of Japan became of paramount importance to Washington, and Japanese development required access to the markets and raw materials of Southeast Asia. The outbreak of war in Korea in 1950 served primarily to confirm Washington's belief that communist aggression posed a great danger to Asia . Subsequent charges that Truman had "lost" China and had settled for a stalemate in Korea caused succeeding presidents to fear the domestic political ...
- 766: A HANGING AUDIENCE
- “I had never realised what it means to destroy a healthy, conscious man.” After reading and understanding George Orwell’s feelings through his experiences in his essay “A Hanging.” We come to realize that George Orwell, a visitor from the European establishment, gets the opportunity to participate in the execution of a Hindu man. We realise that the author is degraded by what he has witnessed and experienced, and decides ... only through the way he described things in detail, however it is also evident in his language. By combining the way the author felt, his point of view and his audience. we finally agree that George Orwell was so degraded by the events that took place that morning, that he really wanted the rest of the members in the establishment to hear and also realize the wrongfulness of the events ...
- 767: Walking The Tight Rope
- ... reminder that with those definitions of what is real, we are killing ourselves, carting ourselves off to jail or retiring at a young age to wheelchairs. Esther Iverem writes about arts and culture for the Washington Post and has also written for Essence, New York Newsday and The New York Times. A native of Philadelphia, she is a graduate of the University of Southern California, where she studied journalism and ethnic studies, and Columbia University, where she received her master's degree in journalism. She lives in Washington, D.C. with her son Mazi. TUPAC'S SQUANDERED GIFT by Kenny Carroll As rapper Tupac Shakur lay dying in a Las Vegas hospital room, commentators, reporters and critics on the left and right were ... up to his wrong-headed raps. Their analysis lacked the style or economy of my 14 year old son, who sadly proclaimed Tupac "stupid." My own reaction to his death was to think of the Washington poet DJ Renegade's melancholy libation for the victims of violent crime: This is for the brothers who found out too late, that going out like a soldier means . . . never coming back. Shakur's ...
- 768: Incorporation Of The American
- ... been lying on that sofa for as long as I can remember’” (15). Tom and Daisy thoroughly attain their dreams and are very successful in achieving them. Another character’s dream which is illustrated is George Wilson. His dream is to obtain wealth and prosperity. He shows this during this meeting with Tom: “‘Hello Wilson, old man,’ said Tom, slapping him jovially on the shoulder. ‘How’s business?’ ‘I can’t ... so much. This is why he wants to earn money so badly. He shows her love for her when he says: “‘I have a way of finding out’” (166). This part was regarding when Myrtle, George’s wife, dies and he is really angry. The way he says this implies that he wants revenge for his wife’s death. Unfortunately his dream has a downfall since a little while later after ... killing Gatsby he does this: “It was after we started with Gatsby toward the house that the gardener saw Wilson’s body a little way off in the grass, and the holocaust was complete” (170). George Wilson tried to hard to acquire his dream, which lead to his downfall. The central character of the story, Jay Gatsby, has a dream that through wealth and power he can attain Daisy his ...
- 769: Lack Of Knowledge Thesis Examination
- ... philosophy, the eighteenth century equivalent of the sciences like physics and chemistry. Although his first attempts at attending lectures were interrupted and not successful, he enjoyed reading the works of Pliny the Elder and Buffon, George Louis Leclerc, Comte de; both of whom wrote extensive encyclopedic books on natural history. (25)[5] Frankenstein begins to build on his scientific knowledge. He also starts to take his study of chemistry seriously when ... Anne K. Mellor: New York, NY: Modern Language Association of America, 1990. 2.)Hill-Miller, Katherine. My Hideous Progeny: Mary-Shelly, William Godwin and the Father-Daughter Relationship: Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1973. 3.)Levine, George. The Endurance of Frankenstein: essays on Mary Shelly’s novel/ edited by George levine and U. C. Knoepflmacher: Berkeley: University of Califonia Press, 1979. 4.)Mellor, Anne K. Mary Shelly: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters: New York; London: Routledge, 1989. 5.)Shelly, Mary. Frankenstein: New York, ...
- 770: Free Music: Why Not?
- ... are happy and so are the musicians; what more could you want? Works Cited Boucher, Rick. "The Future of Intellectual Property in the Information Age." Copy Fights. Ed. Clyde W. Crews Jr., and Adam Thierer. Washington, D.C.: Cato Institute, 2002. 95-105. Clay, Steve. Napster attack was misguided. 6 June 2000. 25 Nov. 2002 . Dvorak, John C. One Buck Forty or Die. 24 Sept. 2002. PC Magazine. 24 Nov. 2002 ... Contract. Loyola University 22 Sept. 2001. 5 Dec. 2002 . Market Data. 20 July 2001. RIAA. 5 Dec. 2002 . Post, David G. "His Napster's Voice." Copy Fights. Ed. Clyde W. Crews Jr., and Adam Thierer. Washington, D.C.: Cato Institute, 2002. 107-124. United States. Cong. House. Costs of Internet Piracy for the Music and Software Industries. US 106th Cong., 2nd sess. Washington: GPO, 2000.
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